Hans Rolshoven (ship)

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The Hans Rolshoven was an air traffic control ship of the German Air Force during World War II . She was named after the First World War fallen naval aviator Hans Rolshoven .

Construction and technical data

The Hans Rolshoven (air traffic control ship IV), originally the name of Peter Strasser should have expired on 20 February 1937 at the Norderwerft Köser & Meyer in Hamburg with the hull number 697 from the stack . The ship was 76.2 m long (73.1 m in the waterline ) and 10.6 m wide. It had a maximum draft of 3.5 m and displaced 985 t (standard) and 1168 t (maximum). Four 12-cylinder 4-stroke MAN - diesel engines with a total of 8800 psi, and two screws enabled the ship a top speed of 21 knots (empty) or 18.5 knots (full load). The hopper capacity was 125 tons of diesel oil and allowed a range of 3800 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 16 knots. The ship was unarmored and armed with three 3.7 cm and two 2 cm anti-aircraft guns; in January 1940 three 20 mm MG were also installed. The vessel was equipped with a mobile on rails Kampnagel - portal crane with 10 t lifting force and an actuating and aft working deck equipped and could be up to three water aircraft types He 60 , Do 18 , He 114 or Ar 196 to record. The crew consisted of 63 men.

fate

The ship was put into service on February 9, 1938 and assigned to the Bug district on Rügen . In the pre-war period, the Hans Rolshoven also served as an escort ship for seaplanes of the Air Force on visits abroad. She was at the International Aviation Exhibition in Helsinki from May 4th to 20th, 1938, when an Ar 95 was shown to the public for the first time .

After the outbreak of war, she initially continued to serve in the Baltic Sea , then from the end of September 1939 in the German Bight . After the occupation of Norway , the ship was moved to Bergen to the Distress District II (SNB II) in April 1940 . In August 1941 it changed to the distress service leader 5 (SNDF 5) in Trondheim . In 1942 it was used again in the Baltic Sea. There the ship collided with the Swedish railway ferry Konung Gustav V off Sassnitz on June 14, 1942 .

On October 2, 1942, the Hans Rolshoven ran into a mine near Bornholm and sank. The wreck was lifted on July 26, 1943 and towed to Sassnitz. The planned transfer to Hamburg, where the ship was to be made ready for use again at the Norderwerft, did not take place. During a British air raid on Sassnitz on March 6, 1945, the ship was sunk by bomb hits . The wreck was lifted in 1949 and scrapped in 1950/51.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leutnant zur See Hans Rolshoven was the first leader of the Seefrontstaffel I set up in occupied Flanders in September 1917. He died on May 6, 1918 when his plane crashed off Dunkirk .
  2. ↑ The float plane V-3 D-ODGY.

literature

  • Volkmar Kühn (di Franz Kurowski ): The sea emergency service of the German Air Force 1939–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3879435642 , ISBN 978-3879435647 .
  • Dieter Jung, Berndt Wenzel, Arno Abendroth: Ships and boats of the German sea pilots 1912-1976. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition, 1977.
  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 - Volume 7: The ships and boats of the German sea pilots. Bernard & Graefe, Munich, 1982.

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